The 9 most popular audiobooks of 2017

If you've got a long drive or flight ahead of you for the holidays, consider one of these titles to get you through your travels.
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If you've got a long drive or flight ahead of you for the holidays, you might be in search of the right audiobook to get you through your travels.

A list compiled by Amazon-owned audio book retailer Audible might help with your decision.

Audible compiled its list by looking at the most listened-to books of 2017. These are the audiobooks that listeners listened to the most — as opposed to simply looking at the most downloaded titles. Readers' listening habits pegged these books as the ones with the most re-listening potential.

Read on to see which nine made the list. Descriptions below are from each book's publisher.

9. 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale

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The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter — but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition.

Then at Halloween, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through — alive!

7. 'It ,'by Stephen King, narrated by Steven Weber

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Welcome to Derry, Maine. It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children.

Now children are being murdered again, and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry's sewers.

6. 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,' by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale

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Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car!

Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors — and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone ... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.

5. 'Ready Player One,' by Ernest Cline, narrated by Wil Wheaton

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At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut — part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

4. 'Born a Crime,' by Trevor Noah, narrated by Trevor Noah

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Trevor Noah, one of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars and host of The Daily Show, tells his wild coming-of-age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.

In this Audible Studios production, Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.

3. 'A Game of Thrones,' by George R. R. Martin, narrated by Roy Dotrice

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In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell.

To the south, the king's powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne's shadow. At the center of the conflict, the Starks of Winterfell hold the key: a reluctant Lord Eddard is summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder both family and kingdom.

In this land of extremes, plots and counter plots, soldiers and sorcerers, each side fights to win the deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle.

Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

1. 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck,' by Mark Manson, narrated by Roger Wayne

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In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be positive all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today.